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October 11, 2009

ALDS3: Angels 7, Red Sox 6

Jonathan Papelbon allowed two inherited runners to score in the eighth and then, needing only one more strike for the save, allowed three runs of his own.

And the Angels move on to the ALCS.

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Two quick thoughts: Walking Hunter intentionally was dumb. Should Tito have pulled Bot after Abreu's double made it 6-5? Bot had allowed three straight hits and four hits to his six batters. When did Jeemer get up and was anyone else up with him?

Note: I'm not blaming Francona (not much, anyway). Papelbon tried to get the third out against five hitters and failed.

One possible reason for Clay Buchholz's poor performance in his last two starts (13 runs in eight innings against Toronto and Cleveland) is that his body is tired from throwing more innings this season than in any other.

I don't care that, in the first two games, Pedroia seems to have forgotten that he's the reigning MVP of the American fucking League. I don't care that Ortiz is hitting like he's still on the Twins or that Drew doesn't give a shit or that Bucknor forgot to put his contacts in or that Buck Martinez won't shut the fuck up. This is Zero hour. Ground Zero. Everything that has happened in the last two games is forgotten.

Today Clay dominate this smug motherfucking lineup, and we get to see an offensive explosion the likes of which will not be tempered in the least by the enfeebled ministrations of some forgotten Tampa castoff.

We've lulled them to sleep with our anemic road offense. Now we skullfuck them to death in Fenway and send them home with their collective tail between their legs for a decisive game 5 - a game, by the way, that will end with Lackey committing seppuku on the mound after yet another unbelievably frustrating playoff loss to the Red Sox.

Tito, at Fenway since 6:15 AM:"If I have to go have a meeting today, we're not in good shape. We've had one meeting all year. Our guys understand what to do. We communicate enough here. If I have to go out there and have a Knute Rockne speech, we're in trouble."

Sitting at Krankie's, a local coffee joint/hangout for hippies types young and old. Feel quite at home here for some reason :)

Must win today because I can't miss the last game of the season, and I've a feeling I'll miss most of this one. My daughter is coming over and we are beginning a process that should have started a long time ago, but I've been avoiding it. I started to put her off again but it's her only day off and I'm gone next weekend, and this has got to get done. So win plz.

You mean Baseball Reference, right, not Mr. "I'm a Yankee fan who comes to a Red Sox blog on a regular basis to tell Red Sox fans to stop paying so much attention to the Yankees, even as I watch late-night Red Sox games and follow along with the Joy of Sox game thread, so that when the Red Sox allow a run, I can be trying to post a comment within 20 seconds of the run being scored, and I also reference other posters' comments, but I'm too big of a moron to see the irony"?

Not that I want to start a whole thing here (I totally don't), but one of my favourite threads all year was all the riffing on RUNS, during one of our major outages this year. A, if you found that thread - some other time, not during a game - I'd like to see it.

Motherfucker. For some reason Fox Sports is only showing this game at 10PM. So now I have to choose between watching on the computer and threading, or waiting 3.5 hours before I can watch it comfortably on the TV.What should I do?

Question: where can I find this game on the radio? I have to do some stuff outside now, and I cannot figure out how to listen to the game. Is is just ESPN radio? Do the Red Sox radio stations carry the game? HELP!